Guild Wars 2

I really wish Devs would stop ignoring Fractals threads completely.

Any feedback would be gread, even if it’s a negatove one. Then we’d at least where we stand.

I use “Experienced Melee Zerkers” these days- That way noone can says they missunderstood my LFG text.

I feel the same about most WvW titles. No idea what their reasoning was to set such huge requirement numbers.

It never stops amazing me how some people think they can force their narrow view of how game play should function on everyone.

Stacking in a corner has been a valid combat strategy in MMO’s since the dawn of time. Smart use of your surroundings in combat has allways been a huge part of combat.

It’s also clear you have no idea about support functions in GW2.

Charr works best with heavy armor classes – warrior, guard
Norn works very well with heavy armor classes , female norns look pretty nice in light armor.
Sylvari work best with medium and heavy armor classes, their leafy skin if kinda ugly looking, especialy with certan light armors.

just my 2 cp

LordByron.8369:

P.S. fotm 1 is way easier than any dungeon…..

I suspect that’s the reason why devs think dredge fractal is fine as it is. They only ever did it at low levels and though it was fine, then set higher level difficulty based on their projected difficulty/fractal lvl graph settings

Some suggestions how Fractal rewards could be made better.

- Make Fractal weapon skins buyable with fractal tokens for decent but not too high price 2k – 3k Fractal tokend per weapon.
- Make ascended armor and weapon boxes buyable for a high 3-4k fractal tokens per weapon/armor box
- Add uniq rare weapons as drops to fractals.
- raise daily reward a lot … Tier 1 = 1g, Tier 2 = 2g. Tier 3 = 3g, etc

I have pretty much stopped doing fractals since this change went in. The reward for time invested is so low I started spending my time in dungeon speedruns for tripple the reward for third the effort.

Thank you for encouraging challenging play …. NOT.

p.s. ascended cleric armor/weapon boxes droping 95% of the time are useless to most players.

I’m a devout supporter of Dredge People’s Revolutionary Party, can you please send them a memo to be less aggressive in dredge fractal? Thank you!

Greeting,

Do do you have any plans to make changes to Dredge fractal to bring it more in line with other fractals? If so, can you give us a rough estimate?

Smirgel.9460:

I used to be slow mesmer like you, but then I took 6 runes of speed to my gear.

That’s not fair though. Why should Mesmers have to pay 8-10g per rune just to have run speed most other classes get for free?

I mean one would expect that a class that can bend space and time would be able to hasten their walk speed. :P

I have a lvl 66 mesmer alt i stopped playing simply because i got tired of using focus buff.

I want to have the same passive walking speed as other classes without spending 9g per rune of traveler.

Untill then mesmer is a no go for me.

I have never ever played or seen a MMO where people were satisfied with class ballance. It’s a battle with Windmills from start onwards.

The more you try to ballance them they more messed up it gets in the end.

That’s exactly why a regular Fractal section is warranted imo.

Fractals are a totally different beast than standard Dungeons with its own problems and issuses.

Issues getting ignored and/of lost in the noise of Dungeons and General forum sections.

Maybe with it’s own section fractals would get more attention than they get now with so many outstanding issues getting ignored for quite some time now.

Pretty please

[Will we ever get weapon boxes from fractals?]
[Dredge fractal still too long]
[I just got my 500th fractal ring today. Please add ascended ring salvage]
[WTB Fractal lvl 51+]

Warrior – Polearm, 2h Greataxe, Katana, offhand pistol

Blink and jump inside shortcuts were fixed everything else same as it was. We had dredge fractal last night …it wasn’t fun. Takes even longer now.

Can we get a forum section dedicated to fractals only please?

Currently feedback regarding fractals is lost in General and Dungeons sections spam.

Being such a huge part of the game for many players i feel it deservs it’s own section for constructive debate. It would also help devs find fractal feedback in one place not all over.

Can we please get some dev feedback about outstanding fractals issues? It seems like we’re being ignored with zero dev responses to the many fractal posts.

Can you at least remove dredge fractal from map rotation untill you have the time to fix it properly?

How many posts do we have to make about it being totally ouf of line with the rest of fractals before something happens.

Absolutely hideous every last one of them. Those kind of weapons have absolutely no place in an epic fantasy game where we fight elder dragons for survival.

Absolutely hate those weapons. What are we paying? Hello Kitty online ?

What an obvious cash-in on the whole Valentine’s day s*it.

Do any devs actually play fractals above lvl 10?

At igher levels Dredge fractal is so long compared to other fractals that it’s better to just exit and start fractals from the start that go troug all the pain of doing it.

It’s not fun, it’s not challenging, it’s pure frustration.

Only fixing the part that makes it less frustrating and a tiny bit shorter is just another slap in player’s faces.

Please do something to fix this properly. Players have given so much constructive feedback about the issue. Don’t just ignore it.

Noone is asking for a nerf. People just want to minimise the impact lowest end players currently have on the success of the event. Last time we had 4/5 severed chains and 4/5 groups in the lane finished. One group wiped and cost 100+ players a win. That’s just wrong for temporary open world content that’s suppoed to be more casual friendly.

Because when event faile rate is 80-90% with correct number of players you know the requirement bar was set too high for the general population.

Zaxares.5419:

The above comment got me thinking. What if the number of successful platforms altered how much the power level got increased? Currently, a failure means the bar shoots up 20%, regardless of whether it was a 4/5 near miss or a 0/5 uber wipe.

My suggestion – the bar increases by 4% for each platform that failed to destroy their Regulator. This means that if each attempt only missed it by the slimmest of margins (and if the lanes are good about stopping all Watchworks from getting through), they effectively have 20+ attempts to destroy the Marionette. This gives players more breathing room, and also serves as a way to spur on greater effort if they can see that they’re only missing out by a hair’s breadth.

That’s actually a great idea. Best one so far i’ve seen.

Too many achievements are tied to marionette to only allow them if you win, especially since event win ratio is so ridiculously small.

When i new player sees all those high lvls in a low lvl zone what image do they get of GW2?

A: “Wow the rest of the game must really suck if everyone is staying here all day.”

And that gives them a skewed view of the game and zero motivation to leave Queensdale.

The solution is very simple. Remove the “event” component from Queensdale champs.

This will force low level players to move on if they want to level up, not remain in Queensdale till lvl 80 because it’s easier farm than anything else.

Last night i was in Queensdale and there was a lvl 42 newbie with Golden title and Commander tag who’s never done anything else but Queensdale train. I was shocked to say the least.

I have no problem with the difficulty of the Marionette event myself, then again i’m doing fractals quite alot and am used to chaleging content.

The problem is your average joe player who does easy casual content and barely knows what challenging content is then comes to Marionette and thinks they do amazing dps with bow and autofire.

So far i’ve done the event 6 or 7 times (in overflow mind you), most attempts were pretty organized), we lost every single attemp. Last one we lost at 4/5 chains because 1 team wiped on warden. We even had othe rlanes helping the weaker ones. Pretty frustrating to say the least.

The whole thing is way too long if you do it properly.

1. They should just cut out the first part starting with door to cage part open straight away.

2. Next thing they should nerf the bomb door part so people don’t have to die countless times just to get it open.

3. Tune the clown cart part a bit better, especially the bomb dropping veterans.

Being able to save two builds would be amazing, but as long as they sell field respec items in gem shop i’m not very optimistic about their motivation to do so. Hope i’m wrong ….

As a player from deslation i can confirm this. As i posted in another thread it’s getting really annoying to be blocked from doing most WB’s in prime time if you don’t zone in long before event starts.

Please limit guesting to heavily populated servers.

The situation is gettins seriously out of hand on desolation server where many in EU seem to guest for WB’s, We’re getting into overflow for SB, golem. fire shaman and similar.

And i tryed to zone in litteraly less then a minute the boss poped on timer.

They should limit guesting on another servers to a limited number of days per week at least if nothing else.

This game uses chat links, those are not real items but items existing only in chat inserted there by copy pasting in an appropriate code word.

Well as a game programmer he’s not paid to be nice to people. It wouldn’t hurt to be more polite tho.

The hostility here is getting a bit out of hand. Cool down if you want to keep the thread open.

Elrey.5472:

BillFreist.1527:

Think of it this way: Between the embers and whistle, those items were effectively doubling/tripling the amount of players active in a map.

Then a necro with a lot of summons is preventing 5-6 players to join that map if it’s full?

I think that’s a very serious question, especially for this event that has two world bosses as main focus.

Do necro summoned minions count toward max players in zone or are they spawned on top and counted separately?

Let’s see …

- The fight begins with 3 npc’s with event descriptions saying you need to escort them each to their own location.

- When you arrive there a Massive (Cobalt) Wurm with a immunity shield wpawns.

- Event description now shows Wurm’s HP and 0/20 barrels written under it. And there is a barrel shown on map where people canpick up barrels.

What’s there to figure out or unclear? i mean seriously….

I like Scarlet and enjoyed most LS’s.

Wow, just wow.

Did you ever play any other MMO and did any sort of raid content at all? Raids are supposed to be figured out by players. It’s usually the hardest content available in a MMO.

What did you expect a guide how to kill a world boss in patch notes? jeez.

Kodan would be a perfect race for a 3rd heavy armor class.

Largos look awsome tough.

Frustracean.4823:

I have played extremely complicated classes before this game in other MMOs (aka Warlock before Cata in WoW) So complication is not much of a handicapping factor for me…but I do like magic based classes

Then it seems like Mesmer is the class you might like.

Welcome to Tyria

What class is best for you depends what gameplay suits you the most.

If you like melee combat with strong offense, good defense and offensive support you can’t go wrong with a warrior.

If you like melee but like more defensive support kind of gameplay go with a guardian.

If you like more fragile but great dps classes you can try Elementalist or Thief

Mesmers are a nicee support class with few very nice group support abilites and unique gameplay.

Rangers, Necros and Engeneers are nice to play solo but are not hugely popular in dungeons.

One thing you should know though, GW2 stongly favors melee range combat and ranged damage is very small in comparison.

They stated that they have 2 large projects in works in background they can’t say anything about. It’s safe to say they’re expansions imo.

For me GW2’s combat resembles a real world fight scene much more than any trinity fight looks like. Chaotic, full of adrenalin, people shouting running all over the place trying to not get damaged. Killing enemy closest to them.

I was allways a amazed when i obsereved “trinity” fights…. Look at that huge godlike creature with IQ so huge it’s bursting out of it’s ears but yet so stupit that it only attacks 1 person taunting it and just stands there in the corner while a crowd of his friends attack it from behind.

It’s a stupid, stupid outdated mechanic that needs to evolve and i think GW2’s way is the right first step in that direction.

It would affect personal story, racial skills, racial armors/weapons, and probably few other things that could cause problems.

I don’t see this happen in a long time if ever.

Having played MMO’s since EQ i’m getting pretty tired of trinity based MMO’s and find GW2 very refreshing in that aspect.

Nothing more annying than wanting to do dungeons and waiting around for 1 hour because there’s not healer/tank available.

As it is you can log on at 2 AM and still find a group for fractals/dungeons right away. I’l take that over trinity system any day.

if you get 20 in STR you loose 10% dmg boost from Attack of Opportunity or 5-15% crit chance from Heightened focus.

As for condi cleaner you can allways swap out FGJ or banner for signet of stamina.